Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Twisty, revengy, and a quick read

The Collective by Alison Gaylin

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Wow this book. I think I read it in three days, and that’s just reading at night before I went to bed. I know I stayed up until midnight a few nights because I couldn’t stop reading this. My best friend recommended it to me a while ago, and I just recently borrowed the ebook from the library. It’s a pretty satisfying premise. The main character Camille is still grieving her daughter five years after she died. A local college student was tried and acquitted […]

Who would’ve thought a book about birds would be so deep?

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

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I can’t remember if I randomly found this book because I liked the author, or because I liked the narrator. Either way, I liked the narrator! This was another book that was so very long, and I didn’t really think it needed to be so long. It’s about a woman named Franny Stone. She’s obsessed with the last flock of Arctic terns, and following them on their migratory journey. She tries to talk every ship captain she meets into letting her hitch a ride on […]

Lots and lots and lots and lots of tennis. But also maybe some murder?

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

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I asked my sister if she read this book, because we both love Liane Moriarty. Her answer was “Ugh, the tennis one?”. Yes dear readers, this is the tennis one. If there are 10,000 words in this book (it’s long, so I’m sure there are way more), 7,500 of them are related to tennis. It didn’t really bother me, but apparently it bothered my sister! It’s funny, and I know I’ve said this before, but Liane Moriarty is the only author I seem to enjoy […]

A Later Hercule Poirot Mystery

Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot #22) by Agatha Christie

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I’m not sure if this is my second or third Hercule Poirot book. I originally started reading this as a combo book of number 1 (ummm the poisoning one – They Mysterious Affair at Styles) and this one, which is number 22. I’ve seen Death on the Nile, the train one (it’s probably Agatha Christie blasphemy to not remember the name – Murder on the Orient Express), and maybe another Poirot movie? When you read so many books and watch so many movies sometimes they […]

Rise.

The Trees by Percival Everett

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What if the dead don’t have to stay dead? How do we deal with tragedy so vast, and so systematic, so enshrined in our institutions? Percival Everett’s novel The Trees responds to that question by positing a world in which the past won’t stay buried. In Money, Mississippi (a place I had to look up to verify it’s reality, despite its imaginary qualities in this novel) the local cops are faced with a series of strange murders. This fictional version of Money is home to Carolyn […]

You’re just gonna assume they’re a she?

Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman

Heartstopper Volume 2 by Alice Oseman

Heartstopper Volume 3 by Alice Oseman

Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman

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  I love him so, so much. But what I’ve realized through all of this is that we need other people too: siblings, parents, friends, more friends, a therapist. Even teachers sometimes. That doesn’t mean our relationship isn’t strong. ― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper Volume 4 I’ve been working my way through my recommendation list lately. As soon as I wrap up one series, I’m sad that it is over. I tend to go looking for something along the same lines. After falling in love with […]



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